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nine stories /
Ingrid Horrocks.

272 pages.
New Zealand author.Contents: Evie on branch -- Mavellous instruments -- The usual spiel -- Concrete box -- The silver ship -- The end of the fair -- Women's choice night -- Murmuration -- The silver ship II
Summary: This collection of short stories follow women across generations as they resist, nurture and transform. These are lives shaped by love and politics, motherhood and memory, constraint and defiance. From girls raised in the garden of Plunket founder Truby King, to a queer university student at a mid-2000s Berlin rave, to a mother facing the cost of her son's climate rebellion, the women are complex, resilient and deeply human. Shadowing their stories is the early feminist writer Mary Wollstonecraft, whose journey of grief and revolution will become a vessel for what endures -- and for finding hope. The stories explore the layered selfhood of women -- all that they inherit, sacrifice, imagine and carry forward -- and the power found in unravelling and reweaving those selves on their own terms. (Publisher)